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Six Dividend Stocks For Current Income

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:26:55 GMT

Most novice dividend investors typically are under the impression that successful dividend investing entails finding and purchasing the highest yielding stocks.[More...]

Post Market Summary: Wall Street Jumps On Upbeat Data, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:52:06 GMT

US stocks finished solidly higher on Wednesday as better-than-expected industrial output data buoyed economic optimism.[More...]

Market Closing: Stock Averages End At Day's Highs, Advance Eight Days Out Of Nine

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:25:00 GMT

Stocks carve out fresh 11-month highs after gaining in eight of the past nine sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes up more than 1%. The S&P 500 ends up 1.5%. The Nasdaq Composite closes up 1.4%.[More...]

US Stock Futures Advance After Data, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Eyed

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:42:08 GMT

US stock futures turned higher on Tuesday after a government release showed that consumer prices rose 0.4% in August.[More...]

Investing In Private Equity Through Public Markets

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:12:45 GMT

Private equity funds are much maligned for being inaccessible and merely being a vehicle for the rich to get richer. Well, if you can’t beat them, join them! A little known asset class made a few headlines in recent days when two participants – Ares Capital Corp. and Apollo Investment Corp. – filed public offerings to raise capital. These two companies are a subset of a little known asset class which was created to provide small investors access to private equity investments while also providing more capital to help small and middle market companies grow. These companies are known as Business Development Companies (BDC) and, when publicly listed, are roughly[More...]

Screening For Solid Dividend Payers

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Regular readers of this blog know I place a premium on cash yields on my portfolio. But this emphasis on dividends has gotten me into trouble in the past. Yes, I’ll say it: “My name is Davy Bui and I am a recovering yield pig.” My past experiences with stocks like American Capital (ACAS) and Penn (...)[More...]

Quant Funds And Market Rallies: All Rotten?

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:22:19 GMT

Anytime I see a well-written article by another college student, I pay extra attention. Such is the case with Naufal Sanaullah’s piece on why he thinks this recent rally is unsustainable. It’s quite a comprehensive bearish argument, with good points about the technical aspects of trading and a number of shots at the accuracy of last quarter’s bank earnings – and it will also serve as a good starting point for me to assess my own view of where the market is going. Still, I couldn’t help but be struck by the conspiracy-heavy undertones (most of which were backed by links to Zero Hedge – which provides a lot of thought-provoking pieces, none of them ever being positive). I’m not going to argue on points about CDS trades with AIG, because there are[More...]

Don’t Chase High Yielding Stocks Blindly

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:42:00 GMT

Most investors who are close to or in retirement look for dividend stocks as a source of their retirement income. I believe that this is a great investment strategy, as long as these investors don’t chase high-yielding stocks. With the average market yields at 3%, stocks that yield more than 10% should not be automatically embraced in ones income portfolio, but examined more closely than usual. There are several reasons why a stock is yielding over 10%, one of them could be that the stock price has been in a severe down trend, which has increased the current yield on the stock. [More...]

12 Stocks With Happy Investors In The New Year

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:37:11 GMT

Seven trading days into 2009 the stock market has returned to the bad old ways of 2008. At least for investors on the long side. As we wait for earnings season to get into gear and see if our favorite stocks can buck the trend and show positive earnings[More...]

ACAS Dividend News

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:25:00 GMT

American Capital Strategies announced that it will be acquiring all of the ordinary shares of European Capital held by other investors. European Capital shareholders will be getting about 1/3 of ACAS share in exchange for their stock. Furthermore ACAS announced that it won't pay any more dividends for the remainder of 2008. This doesn't really come as a shock to me as ACAS stock price has been falling for several months after I considered it a must own dividend stock and bought some shares in this business development company. With the stock being off over 40% as of now I guess I should have sold at the open if I had seen the news earlier. Anyways I am planning on selling my ACAS position. Disclosure: Long ACAS [More...]

American Capital shares jump on debt restructuring

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:46:00 GMT

NEW YORK - Shares of American Capital Ltd. rallied Wednesday after the private equity firm said it reached a deal to restructure its debt, on top of reporting positive third-quarter results.
The stock gained 27 cents, or 10 percent, to $2.98 in midday trading, after earlier spiking as much as 24 percent.
The deal, which is not yet finalized, calls for American Capital to pay $450 million of debt off immediately and pay the rest off over four years.

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Six Dividend Stocks For Current Income

Post Market Summary: Wall Street Jumps On Upbeat Data, General Electric (NYSE: GE) Rallies

Market Closing: Stock Averages End At Day's Highs, Advance Eight Days Out Of Nine

US Stock Futures Advance After Data, Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) Eyed

Investing In Private Equity Through Public Markets

Screening For Solid Dividend Payers

Quant Funds And Market Rallies: All Rotten?

Don’t Chase High Yielding Stocks Blindly

12 Stocks With Happy Investors In The New Year

ACAS Dividend News

American Capital shares jump on debt restructuring

Earnings Preview: IAC/InterActiveCorp

American Capital sells HomeAway interest for $15M

Abbott Reports Earnings Gain on Stronger Sales, Settlement of Patent Suit: W.W. Grainger Reports Revenue Continues to Fall

American Capital shares fall after S&P downgrade

Local Firm Files for $100 Million IPO

Local Firm Files for $100 Million IPO

American Capital completes People Media sale

Spring Air Closes Salt Lake City Mattress Plant: Out of Business Amid Companywide Shutdown

American Capital Subsidiary Supplies Nuclear Detection Systems to Swiss Army

Duke Energy Selects Mirion Technologies to Replace Its Existing Personnel Contamination Monitors at Oconee Nuclear Station

PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Ambac Financial Group Inc., Xerox Corporation, Kinross Gold Corporation, American Lithium Minerals Inc. and NovaGold Resources

Kohlberg & Company Names Andrew Bonanno Managing Director of Business Development

PicksThatMove Announces Investment Opinion on Bull Market and Bear Market

AGNC Commences Public Offering of Common Stock

Mirion Technologies Awarded Contract to Supply Radiation Monitoring Systems to Ten Chinese Nuclear Power Plants

American Capital Announces Q2 2009 Results

American Capital Announces Form of Previously Declared Dividend and Results of Dividend Elections

AGNC Reports $2.02 Earnings Per Share and $20.76 Book Value Per Common Share

American Capital Will Report Q2 2009 Results on August 4

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: WINN DARIN (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: WAGNER IRA (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: OBRIEN GORDON (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: Graff Brian (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: Flax Samuel Allan (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: Cline Roland (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: ERICKSON JOHN R (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Nov 11 Filed by: WILKUS MALON (10K)

Form 4 KOSKINEN JOHN A For: Sep 30 (10K)

Form 4 AMERICAN CAPITAL, LTD For: Sep 30 Filed by: PURYEAR ALVIN N (10K)